Map- by the people, for the people...


The Birmingham city and its metropolitain area were completely mapped by its citizens by Christmas 2008 making it the first completely mapped city in the UK through the croud sourcing technique used by OpenStreetMap project. It is second in updation and accurate only to the OS map.The data being used by OSM has been obtained from 100 volunteers who collected GPS data while cycling, walking, riding busses and trains and one volunteer even used a canal boat. They have mapped some 15,000 residential roads, 6,000 footpaths and 9,000 other roads in Birmingham (and over 700 bus stops, 300 pubs, 200 traffic lights and 300 postboxes).

Source: Wikipedia